The Letter to the Editor on 12/6/05 entitled: “Christ in Christmas” is another fine illustration of the dominating ideas of Christians. American society is not homogeneously Christian or even religious, so why should society have to tolerate a public religious observance they don’t believe in? Laughably the Christian idea of tragedy at Christmas is that Christ is not as celebrated at this juncture of the societal calendar, as he used to be.

The real tragedy of Christmas is that those who claim Christ as their leader do very little of what He did. He gave his life to give mankind the opportunity to come back into relationship with God. Statistically Christians barely give 2% of their income to people in ministry who are actually following Christ in this way. Those who merely seek representation in society’s celebrations fail to see that Christ would be better celebrated by personally emulating his example.

This perennial drivel, about Christ not being kept in Christmas, represents whiners, malcontents, and complainers who are out of touch with reality. They gripe about the absence, or at least the downturn, in representation of their beliefs in the public square. The public square is actually much better off when religious people aren’t constantly parading ideas they are proud of, expecting non-believers to go along with it, as much as when they become servants in the public square as Christ was.